"Congratulations, Brother Mo, on entering the Venerable Realm." Seeing Mo Wuji retract his gaze, Lou Si quickly suppressed the shock in her heart and stepped forward to congratulate him.

Mo Wuji smiled. "With your aptitude, it won't be long before you reach the Venerable Realm like me. Now that the hermaphrodite has been killed by me, are you staying in the Tianwaitian Market or going to the Cosmic Public Area with me for a while?"

Lou Si sighed and said, "I've long wanted to leave the Tianwaitian Corridor, but I've never had enough cyan crystals. Like me, those who have stayed in the Tianwaitian Corridor for more than five years must first pay 10,000 cyan crystals to the demon race as a contribution fee if they want to leave. Then there are another 2,000 cyan crystals as a transfer fee, but all my assets combined are not enough for that many cyan crystals."

Mo Wuji's expression turned somewhat ugly when he heard Lou Si's words.

Lou Si had previously said that as a shopkeeper in the Tianwaitian Market, the price of taking the teleportation array to leave the Tianwaitian Corridor would be dozens of times higher. How could he have so many cyan crystals? Moreover, he didn't have any cyan crystals to help Lou Si.

"I don't have that many cyan crystals either." Mo Wuji felt very helpless.

Dozens of times 12,000 cyan crystals would add up to more than 100,000 cyan crystals.

Lou Si quickly said, "Brother Mo, I'm a shop assistant in your store. As long as you take me with you when you take the teleportation array, you don't need to pay extra cyan crystals. As a shopkeeper in the Tianwaitian Market, you only need 25,000 cyan crystals to take the teleportation array into the Cosmic Public Area. Of course, we must leave through the human race when we leave. If we leave through the demon race, they might ask me for 10,000 contribution cyan crystals."

More than 20,000? Mo Wuji immediately understood that he was neither a demon nor a human, so he didn't need to pay any contributions.

But he didn't even have 20,000 cyan crystals, let alone 200 cyan crystals. He had only a little over 100,000 cyan crystals in total. He used up 70,000 to 80,000 in seclusion and more than 30,000 in tribulation transcendence. He only had about a hundred cyan crystals left.

When Lou Si saw Mo Wuji's expression, she knew that Mo Wuji couldn't come up with more than 20,000 cyan crystals either. She hesitated and said, "Brother Mo, if you don't want to come back, you can sell the shop."

"You're not planning to come back?" Mo Wuji asked Lou Si suspiciously. He knew from Lou Si's words that Lou Si didn't plan to come back after she left.

Lou Si nodded. "Yes, I entered the Tianwaitian Corridor to join the demon army to help someone. Later, I realized that it's easy to come, but too difficult to leave."

"What do you mean?" Mo Wuji was a little puzzled.

Lou Si explained, "There are many races concentrated in the Cosmic Public Area. Although you don't need to participate in the Cosmic Wall resource grabbing war in that area, you still need to pay rent. A friend of mine needed to cultivate in seclusion, and not only did renting require cyan crystals, but cultivation also required a large amount of cyan crystals. So he borrowed a lot of cyan crystals.

He couldn't repay these cyan crystals. The only way to repay these cyan crystals was to go to the Tianwaitian Corridor to grab Cosmic Wall resources. At that time, his cultivation was at a critical moment, so I came to the Cosmic Wall on his behalf. I didn't expect to be here for several years. Now, not to mention leaving the Tianwaitian Corridor, even surviving is becoming more and more difficult."

Mo Wuji looked at Lou Si in surprise. He didn't expect that there were still immortals of Lou Si's caliber now. This was equivalent to serving in someone else's stead. It seemed that Lou Si and her friend had a very unusual relationship. The danger of the Cosmic Wall...

"How did the cyan crystals you grabbed get into his hands?" Mo Wuji continued to ask.

Lou Si sighed again. "I came here through the merchant building that my friend borrowed from. This merchant building is very large and has branches in both the human and demon corridors. In the seven years I've been here, I've participated in four Cosmic Wall resource grabbing wars. Each time, I had to turn in a portion of the harvest to the demon race, take out a portion to the branch of the lending merchant building to pay off the debt, bring a portion to my friend, and the rest was my cultivation resources."

Mo Wuji sighed inwardly. He didn't continue to say anything. He was sure that Lou Si's friend was not that great. No matter how critical cultivation was, it couldn't be continuously critical for seven or eight years. If this friend was good, he would have come to the Tianwaitian Corridor to see her long ago. Obviously, letting Lou Si find cultivation resources here for him for seven or eight years was a form of exploitation.

"Lou Si, I don't have any cyan crystals on me now. I've thought of a way. Since I'm about to leave the Tianwaitian Market, I'll open a business in this market. I'll refine pills, and you can help me watch the shop. I don't think there should be much impact if it's not a long-term business," Mo Wuji said.

He would never sell this shop in the Tianwaitian Market. This place was the best place to gather cultivation resources. Once he sold it, it wouldn't be easy to buy it back. Even if he didn't come back in the future, it wouldn't matter.

"You're a Pill Emperor?" Lou Si immediately looked at Mo Wuji in surprise, her tone filled with disbelief.

If Mo Wuji wasn't a Pill Emperor, how could he casually take out a seventh-grade Green Bodhi Pill for her?

Mo Wuji nodded. "That's right, I am indeed a Pill Emperor. I believe that with my pill refinement skills, it should be quick to earn a sum of cyan crystals in the Tianwaitian Market."

Lou Si took a deep breath and looked at Mo Wuji. "Brother Mo, if you believe me, don't refine pills and sell them here, otherwise there will be endless troubles. Do you know why there are so few alchemists and weapon refiners in the Tianwaitian Market, and even those few are ugly and mediocre?"

"What do you mean?" Mo Wuji quickly asked.

Lou Si lowered her voice subconsciously and said, "Because better alchemists and weapon refiners will be coaxed and deceived into leaving. If they really can't be persuaded to leave, after a while, the alchemist or weapon refiner will disappear."

"These people were killed?" Mo Wuji was startled. Could it be that they burned pills and scammed weapon refiners here?

"No, only a small portion of the alchemists and weapon refiners here are killed. Most of them are abducted by powerful cultivators of various races to refine pills and weapons for them. And these Pill and Weapon Masters are basically in the markets of the Cosmic Public Area. The pills and immortal artifacts they refine are basically given to the controllers of the human or demon races," Lou Si explained.

Without Lou Si continuing to explain, Mo Wuji already understood. The human and demon races had been at war for years, and the demand for pills and magical treasures was countless. In order to increase cohesion, these controllers of the Cosmic Wall resource grabbing had to first control pills and magical treasures.

There were already few alchemists and weapon refiners. There were so many people here in the Tianwaitian Corridor. If the Cosmic Public Area was added, there would be even more people. No matter how many pills and magical treasures there were, they would be in short supply.

Besides these reasons, the Tianwaitian Market might also be a force. This force should have its own merchant building, and there must be many pills and magical treasures in their merchant building. If there were alchemists and weapon refiners everywhere in the Tianwaitian Corridor, their competitiveness would directly decline.

"Lou Si, is there a merchant building in the Tianwaitian Market that has a relatively complete collection of pills and is opened by the Tianwaitian Market itself?" Mo Wuji asked as soon as he thought of it.

"It seems you also know. The Tianwaitian Market does have a merchant building with a complete collection of pills and magical treasures, but the prices are really daunting. I heard it's someone with a great background, but I can definitely tell you that it wasn't opened by the Tianwaitian Market itself," Lou Si replied.

Mo Wuji pondered for a long time before saying, "Fortune comes from risk. If I'm timid and restrained, I'll eventually be limited. I'm going to open a Pill Pavilion in the Tianwaitian Market now. You decide for yourself. If you want to work with me, then let's go together. If you're worried, then go to the demon race and wait for me first."

Mo Wuji was also very helpless. The Cosmic Wall only appeared once every few years. At least he had only seen it once in the two years he had been here. And there were so many treasures in the Tianwaitian Market. Once he left, it would be a dream to find such a good place to collect materials and cyan crystals again. He was sure that even in the Cosmic Public Area, there couldn't be such a good thing. And once he settled down, the cultivation resources he needed would be too terrifying. Without cyan crystals, how long would it take to cultivate with immortal crystals?

"Brother Mo, I'll work with you." Lou Si replied almost without any hesitation.

In the years she had been in the Tianwaitian Market, she didn't know how many times she had almost died. If she hadn't worked so hard, she would still be a Grand Luo Immortal.

…

The Tianwaitian Market was as lively as ever. Only a very few people noticed that a magical treasure pavilion that had been closed for two or three years in the Tianwaitian Market had opened.

This magical treasure pavilion was changed to a Mortal Pill Pavilion. The Pill Pavilion actually sold fourth-grade to sixth-grade immortal pills. This wasn't all. This Mortal Pill Pavilion also refined pills for others. Although the price of refining pills for others was slightly higher, charging 60% of the cost, it was simply cheap to the point of being non-existent compared to other shops.

What was the most abundant thing in the Tianwaitian Corridor? All kinds of high-level immortal spiritual herbs, cyan crystals, and countless materials. What was the most scarce? Immortal pills and magical treasures. What was even more scarce? Alchemists who refined pills for others.